Blogger Cookie Exchange - Cardamom Ginger Cookies

 I was so excited to sign on to participate in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap because it meant I could connect with three other bloggers (most likely Canadian as shipping food across borders gets squicky in a post 9-11 world where xmas cookies are now eyed suspiciously ). It also meant that I would receive a dozen cookies from three of my fellow bloggers and that is always a great thing. I love eating other people's baked goods.

My favourite and most requested cookie is a really spicy, crispy ginger snap but I have written about that on my blog and we were instructed to make something that we have never blogged about so that meant I either had to make something completely different or change up my standard ginger snap. I have been pretty obsessed with cardamom for the last few months so I started searching out a yummy sounding cookie with cardamom but all I was seeing were sugar cookies with cardamom added to the dough and that didn't interest me at all. I don't really like overly sweet cookies, if that makes sense. I like super dark chocolate things, I like citrusy things and I like spicy things.

I was so happy to come across this recipe on tastespotting where the beautiful photo caught my eye and took me over to SPCookieQueen's blog. I didn't really change much at all, I just added some candied orange peel and used coarse sanding sugar to roll the cookies because the recipe sounded great as it was. I think she made huge cookies and I made them small like my ginger snaps - I find that when I am eating a really heavily spiced cookie, I only want a small one. Mine aren't as pretty as hers, maybe due to the small size and lack of big cracks in the surface but I think they turned out really great and I hope that Christina from wannafoodie , Katie from Adventures in Actuality and Amanda from The Vanilla Beanery  enjoyed them.

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